Overview

• Ontario’s legislature is considering Bill 9, which would set a standard municipal code of conduct and require integrity-commissioner approvals plus unanimous council votes to remove members for serious violations
• Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has withheld assent to a pipelines, trade corridors and ports memorandum of understanding pending full Indigenous consensus
• Prime Minister Mark Carney has offered few public updates as Canada nears the August 1 deadline with U.S. tariffs on steel, auto and other goods still unresolved
• The Battle River–Crowfoot by-election ballot swelled past 140 names, prompting proposals for higher signature thresholds and other nomination requirements to safeguard electoral integrity
• Public service unions have publicly criticized the government’s staffing reductions, arguing the Liberals have broken their promise to cap, not cut, federal workforce numbers